The Web Implementation Guidelines Group has been working on several efforts to make building websites on campus easier for everyone. Drupal is a popular CMS on campus and now it’s easier to use than ever. Come learn how to use this easy to deploy, campus branded Drupal solution and what features it brings. Also learn […]
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Campus website theme updates
Tags: Laura Hayden, Matt Sharkey, Melissa Waller, Nate BaxleyAt the last IT Pro Forum, you heard about the new campus website brand standards. Now hear about the new developments that have happened in the last 6 months. Many new features, improved designs, and more WordPress theme options and a new Drupal theme and framework. Also learn about the webtheme.illinois.edu website where you can […]
Building Communities of Practice
Tags: Brad Trankina, Nate BaxleyAre you new to campus? This session can help you connect to 1000 IT Pro’s working across campus who have similar challenges as you and who you can collaborate with to resolve them. Join us for an engaging discussion about Communities of Practice, including how they’re leveraged today, how we could leverage them more in […]
Cross-Unit Collaborations — When things just have to get done
Tags: Cordelia Geiken, Laura Hayden, Matt Sharkey, Melissa Waller, Nate BaxleyThere are many great committees and groups on campus that have been formed with formal charters and pre-negotiated deliverables. However, sometimes you need to bring people together quickly to work on a problem and create a solution. The Web Implementation Guidelines Group (WIGG) is a group that was formed completely organically and has now helped […]
Delivering Consistent Web Design Templates Across Multiple Platforms
Tags: Cordelia Geiken, Laura Hayden, Matt Sharkey, Melissa Waller, Nate BaxleyThere are a large variety of web publishing situations across campus today. With the push from the Chancellor last year to adopt the new branding standards, many units are searching for a way to bring their websites into compliance. The WIGG efforts have created branded themes for WordPress and Drupal and made those available to […]
Illinois Drupal Framework: Coming Together to Create Powerful Websites
Tags: Bill Gutierrez, Melissa Waller, Nate Baxley, Tyler RubachThe colleges of ACES and LAS have been using Drupal to power our websites for many years. We’ve pooled our experience to create a system that can be deployed to any hosting solution (including campus cPanel), supports the new campus brand standards out of the box, and is built with customization and expansion in mind. […]
Managing Consistent Cross-Website Design with Maximum Flexibility at a Large Scale (4C)
Tags: Nate BaxleyATLAS is in the middle of a move to CMS driven unit websites. Learn how we are using Drupal with a consistent design and navigation structure to improve LAS websites. With departments covering a wide range of subject matter, faculty and student counts, and available resources, we maintain flexibility within our framework to bring added […]
From Entrepreneurial to Enterprise: IT Grows Up
Tags: Nate Baxley, Rami DassMany IT services at the University start out as small installations serving a few users. As services grow, they give up some of the run-and-gun approach of an entrepreneurial environment to gain the stability and service level of an enterprise service. We will discuss challenges and breakthroughs encountered while changing infrastructure, development, support, and culture […]
AD Course Rosters and You
Tags: Erik Coleman, Nate BaxleyJoin members of the Moodle community and CITES to learn about the CITES AD Rosters and how they’re being used. We’ll cover a practical application of the service used to automate roster and group management in several Moodle sites on campus and talk about some of the hurdles encountered along the way. You’ll also hear […]